Boadicea The Victorious Opal 100ml

The aura of Opal is pervasive and confident. A perfume with myth and gracious modernity. There is seamless beauty in the grand overture of notes. A haunting sense of moody rose and violet lipstick dreams enhanced by bay and rich black coffee. Coffee, a note that must be utilised with smooth seduction, suggesting perhaps an earthy, mountainous Ethiopian bean, precision roasted to extract an oily lee of swirling richness. The addition of bay in Opal hints at traditional men’s perfumery, the herbaceous citrus of smartly masculine old-fashioned barber shops.

Cinnamon, saffron and black pepper are dusted over the fascinating head notes segueing into the heart of Opal with a luxuriance of rose, soft suede and a sleekly transparent orris note. Cedar and Cashmeran are layered with musky, medicinal oakmoss with hints of tonka bean and leather. There is an intriguing mood deep in Opal, a smouldering haze of herbal fire diffused with studied phosphorescence in the twilight of the perfume’s hypnotic development.

Cocoa butter, nutmeg and sage exalt Boadicea’s beautiful Opal with an infusion of complex and striking effects, olfactive silk tumbled over radiant skin, shadowed and crimson, changing hues as light pierces and refracts. Opal melds myth, history and gemmed brilliance into a truly unique perfume of dark and fiery magic. One could imagine a gold torque glittering around the neck of Queen Boadicea as she did battle with the Roman army. The centrepiece of the torque might be a dazzling black opal, lit from within by flames of power. Confidence and oracular mystery flow through this dynamic new scent.